1. Presented at Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge 8-10 December 2010, Cape Town, South Africa Daniel Vadnais, Communication Specialist, Statistics and Monitoring UNICEF UNICEF Child Mortality Estimates Info (CME Info) and MICS Compiler

2. UNICEF: central role in monitoring the situation of children and women worldwide HOW? assisting countries in collecting and analyzing data helping to develop methodologies and indicators maintaining global databases (www.childinfo.org) disseminating and publishing data

5. di Indicators di Sources di Maps

11. CME Info Child Mortality

12. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) Data and methods to estimate child mortality CME Info

13. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) Data and methods to estimate child mortality CME Info

14. MDG4: two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. Background

15. The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) Generating accurate child mortality estimates: considerable challenge Vital registration systems: non available in many developing countries Household surveys : have become a primary source of data. Formation of IGME

16. IGME Members United Nations Population Division * THE WORLD BANK * * Non-official logos

17. Objectives –Harmonize estimates within the UN –Improve estimation methods –Consistent global estimates for reporting on progress towards MDG 4 –Enhance national capacity Technical Advisory Group (TAG) IGME

18. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) Data and methods to estimate child mortality CME Info

19. Methodology IGME compiles all available nationally representative data Data quality assessment Fitting of a regression line Public access on CME Info (www.childmortality.org)

20. Data rich and consistent country

21. Data rich country… but with inconsistent data

22. Data poor country with wide variations Angola

23. Key results 8.1 million children under five died in 2009.

24. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) Data and methods to estimate child mortality CME Info

25. What is CME Info? www.childmortality.org

26. Database Structure 1. 4. 2. 3.

27. Map Window Indicator box Legend

28. Map Window

32. Bangladesh

33. Graph Window

40. Burundi

41. Graph Window Mali

42. Graph Window Mali

43. Graph Window Mali

44. Graph Window

45. Mali Graph Window

46. Comparison in graph window

47. Mali Comparison in graph window

48. Mali Mauritania Algeria Comparison in graph window

49. Indicator boxSubgroup box Mali Mauritania Algeria Comparison in graph window

50. Series Window Notes button

51. Estimates Window

53. Exporting data and estimates

54. CME Info is free and available to all comprehensive data portal leading-edge information technology to visualize in a transparent way how national data can be used to generate international estimates through IGME consensus CME Info

55. Expert and Administrative Interface More advanced features available: Log in Add, edit, delete data Generate, edit, delete estimates Notification system between experts and administrators

56. Future Plans CME Info 3.0 is under development. Will be launched in 2011 Non-web based version under development

57. Contact Information: Dr. Danzhen You, dyou@unicef.orgdyou@unicef.org or childmortality@unicef.orgchildmortality@unicef.org www.childmortality.org www.childmortality.org Website: www.childmortality.orgwww.childmortality.org

58. To learn more on CME Info An e-learning course on the software is available on the CME Info home page at www.childmortality.org. www.childmortality.org

59. MICS Compiler Survey Data

61. # of surveys selected

63. 2 regions 9 surveys selected

65. 12 surveys and 6 indicators selected

68. Toggle between rows and columns

69. Select Full View or simply change the settings on the page

70. You can also print the table or export the data into Excel

72. Future Plans Mapping functionality Selected background characteristics (age, sex, residence, etc.)

73. Contact Information: mics@unicef.org Websites: www.micscompiler.org and www.childinfo.org